A good question is raised by gpgobell. Does anyone have any plans or ambitions yet?
#wanstead. Is the village doing anything for the Royal Wedding?
Graham Gobell
gpgobell
Category: Wansteadium
Wanstead news roundup, 21.03.11; Expenses, roads, sport
• Former Leyton and Wanstead MP Harry Cohen has lost his appeal against having a £65,000 allowance withdrawn following his involvement in the MPs’ expenses scandal.
• TFL is asking Wanstead residents what it thinks of its Olympic-related road closures programme. All in all, they’re relatively minor, but do affect the A12 and Redbridge roundabout, though not everyone is happy about them.Details here on this PDF. (Thanks to @lucretiaborgia1)
• It feeling like Spring, there are a number of sporting opportunities.
Hi. We’re recruiting Cricket, Hockey & Netball Coaches. Applicants see http://bit.ly/gNMVrK . Pls RT to your followers @wansteadium
Run Fun Starz Group
Run_Fun_Starz
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Wanstead CC
Wansteadcc
I’m looking for someone in Wanstead to play squash with at the leisure centre. Can you help @Wansteadium?
Paul Robinson
roflson
Choice tweets about Snaresbrook, I; Innocent, smoothly
Choice tweets about Wanstead, XXXVI; Memories of Tube record shop
@monkchips Wanstead tube station had a great secondhand record shop inside up to the mid 80s. It’s where all my pocketmoney went!
Richard Huppert
noxiousgumbo
One Deko’s long farewell reaches conclusion
Designer shop One Deko has at last reached the end stages of its withdrawal from Wanstead High Street. Nearly all the stock has been removed from the premises and though there has not yet been a formal closure, it’s clearly not many days away.
The firm is, though, still trading at Spitalfields and is actually about to move into larger premises there in the heart of the market.
Though hardly an unexpected move – the shop lease has been advertised for many months – the reasons for the closure are the same as for Horsfall and Wright last year; simply not enough passing trade.
Many will say, however, that the shop was just not pitched right for its location, being more of a speciality designer boutique than the sort of shop you might just pop into to buy a present for someone.
Wanstead the worst in London?
There was at least one cross tweet about the Wanstead Guardian billboard (pictured) last week, and no doubt some degree of eyeball rolling by Wanstead loyalists.
There are probably relatively few people who feel that Wanstead is the worst place in London for burglaries. The new police crime maps do indicate, however, that in January Wanstead ward was one of a number contributing to a high burglary rate in Redbridge – marked in red on the map below. Snaresbrook did not, however, and it’s worth noting that while any burglary is a pain in the neck, the actual numbers are as follows: 28 burglaries in Wanstead ward in January 2011, compared to 20 in December. Snaresbrook had 7 and 11.
It’s always good too to keep an eye on the bigger picture, not just on burglary. Snaresbrook has the lowest overall crime rate of any ward in Redbridge (4.24); Wanstead is higher (8.69) but by no means the worst in Redbridge – there are seven worse. And in the context of neighbouring boroughs, thing become even clearer.
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